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HANGING LAMP. No; 361,546. Patented Apr. 19, 1887.

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FRANK RHIND, CF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO EDXVARD MILLER 85 CO., OF SAME PLACE.

HANGING LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,546, dated April 19, 1887.

Application filed January 6, 1887. Serial No. 223,600. (No model.)

' side view looking toward the latching device;

Fig. 3, an inside view of a portion of the ring and frame, showing the latch. This invention relates to an improvement in that class of hanging lamps in which a single lamp is supported in a frame usually carrying a shade-holder above, the fount being supported below, the frame being what is commonly called a harp.

In the usual construction the support for the fount-holder is rigidly fixed to the frame.

The fount and chimney are removed bodily for filling or trimming the lamp, and then replaced. In introducing the fount with its chimney to the holder or removing it therefrom when the holder is fixed, it is necessary to tilt the lamp to a very considerable angle before the chimney can pass under the shade that is to say, the fount with the chimney must be raised sufficiently high to clear the holder and then drawn out at one side, or vice versa,

in introducing, and this can only be done by giving a very considerable inclination to the lampfount. As a convenience for introducing or removing the fount, the frame has been made in two parts, the lower part carrying the fountholder hinged to the upper part, and so that the lower portion may be turned to one side for the introduction or removal of the fount; but this construction is objectionable, in that the lower portion is liable to swing or be turned out of place when the fount is in place, and there is not that rigidity to the frame and fount-support which is practically necessary in this class of lamps.

The object of my invention is to provide for the convenient introduction of the lamp-fount and without detracting from the rigidity or firm support of the fount; and it consists in hanging the lamp-support to the frame so that it may be turned out of its natural plane, combined with a catch which will'engage the frame and holder when the holder is in its horizontal position, and so as to rigidly and firmly secure the lamp holder and frame.

A represents one side of the frame; B, the opposite side, which extends up to a shadering above, in the usual manner, the shadering being adapted to receive the shade, also in the usual manner, and as seen in Fig. 1. Near the bottom of the sides of the frame is the fount-supporting ring C. This ring is hung in the sides by trunnions a, diametricallyopposite each other, and upon which the ring may oscillate, as seen in Fig. 2, and so that when turned into substantially a vertical plane the fount, with its chimney attached, may be readily introduced, as seen in Fig. 2, and then the ring. returned beneath the fount and without tilting the fount to any considerable extent.

To secure the ring in its horizontal plane, and so as to make it firm and rigid with the frame, I apply at one side a latch, 1), adapted to engage one of the sides of the frame, as shown. The side of the frame or the latch itself is elastic, so that by pulling the eX- tension of the frame outward or forcing the latch inward the latch will escape from the frame and permit the ring to turn upon its trunnions, but so that as the ring is returned to its horizontal position the latch will automatically engage with the frame, and when so engaged will hold the ring as if rigidly fixed to the frame.

A catch of the character described may be applied in lampholders which are simply,

hinged to the frame, and such as I have first mentioned as existing in the art, thereby overcoming the accidental displacement of the lamp-holder.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, a hanging lamp in which the fount is supported upon a part of the frame, so that the frame may be turned out of its normal plane for the introduction or removal of the lamp-fount, as such, I am aware, is not new.

combined with the fonnt-holding ring 0, hung to the frame by trunnions a at diametricallyopposite points and so that the ring may turn on said trunnions, the said ring provided with a catch adapted to engage the frame when in its horizontal position, and substantially as described.

FRANK RHIND.

Witnesses:

GEO. L. CooPER, V. A; BRECKENRIDGE. 

